Anyone read Starters, by Lissa Price?
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Thread Topic: Anyone read Starters, by Lissa Price?
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I met the author today. She's awesome.
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What's it about?
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After a war between the United States and Pacific island nations, the only people left in America are those under twenty and the elderly, nicknamed Starters and Enders. The rest have been wiped out by spore bombs from the opposing nation. In this new world, teenagers struggle to survive. Those who haven't been taken in by rich Enders or shipped off to government institutions have taken to squatting in abandoned buildings.
The struggling teens need money, and how do they get it? A body bank, named Prime Destination. Teens "rent" out their bodies to Enders who want to feel young again and live as they did in their youth. After being rented three times, teens are released and given a high pay for the services. And it's just as easy as falling asleep.
All of this seems easy for Callie, who has a sick younger brother and no place to live. She allows her body to be rented, but at what price? She soon finds herself being rented by a murderer. -
So do they rent out there bodies for "sexual" reasons? Or just something else?
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No. No sex allowed.
I guess "services" sounds a bit like prostitution. It's more a chance for the Enders to, for example, go fishing again. Or skiing. Of course, there are limits, because the rental body is an actual person and is alive, but whatever the teen has done in their life before, the Enders can do.
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